LibGuides: Education: Find Articles

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Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
Collection of education related articles covering adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, educational tests, & teaching methods.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature, including pedagogy, counseling and psychology.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digitized, full-text versions of core scholarly journals across many subjects, including the humanities, social sciences, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Articles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of full-text education journals & educational reports.
Child Development and Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new window
Source for references to current and historical content in biomedicine and the social sciences literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.
PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
A repository for ready-to-use tests and measures from the APA features instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, social work and more.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A good starting place for finding articles on almost any topic. Includes many scholarly journals. Coverage is primarily from 1980 to the present.
Learning Express Library This link opens in a new window
Online skill-building interactive courses, vocabulary lists and practice exams for the GRE, MCAT, LSAT, PRAXIS, GMAT, PCAT, and the NCLEX-RN. Note: Users need to set up an individual account.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
A cross-searchable collection of online reference works, primarily dictionaries and encyclopedias, across all subject areas.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Searchable collection of encyclopedias and other reference works across all subject areas, primarily focusing on the social sciences and humanities.
Middle Search Plus This link opens in a new window
Full-text for popular, middle school level magazines. Includes biographies and historical essays, all assigned a reading level.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window
Magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed, scholarly and scientific articles covering broad topics in psychology.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Resource for psychology abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health.
Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Statistical information produced by U.S. Federal & State agencies, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
Provides resources that include research reports, fact sheets and briefs, datasets, instruments and measures, citations for scholarly journal articles and books, grey literature, government documents, and more.
U.S. Department of Education

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
Is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Formerly LexisNexis Academic, Nexis Uni provides full-text access to legal texts of federal, state and U.S. Supreme court decisions, agency regulations and law journal articles; company and industry news, financial data and executive biographies; and national and international news sources.

Journals

The following are some LC subject heading searches that pull up lists of Rockhurst owned electronic and print journals:

Education - periodicals

Education - aims & objectives - history - periodicals

Special Education - periodicals

Teaching - periodicals

Search Tips

AND, OR, NOT (Boolean Operators)

use AND, OR, NOT to combine search terms: elementary AND "special education"
use quotation marks to indicate phrases: "multicultural education"
use opening and closing parentheses to group search terms: school and (elementary or primary)
use ? to truncate: school? (will find school, school(s), school(ing), etc)

Additional search tips which are specific to a database can be found in the help section.